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Promoting content from an activity stream

  • US 9,009,065 B2
  • Filed: 12/17/2010
  • Issued: 04/14/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • providing a control for presentation on a user interface for enabling a user to promote, to one or more other users, a non-sponsored content item that is included in an activity stream associated with the user, the activity stream being presented in a social context;

    receiving an indication from the user to promote the non-sponsored content item;

    receiving a second request for a sponsored content item to be placed in a slot within a first website, wherein the first website is different from a second website associated with the activity stream and wherein the second request for the sponsored content item is based on a first request for content from one of the one or more other users;

    determining, by one or more processors, that the non-sponsored item is responsive to the second request based on determining a relevance of the non-sponsored content item to criteria associated with the second request;

    determining one or more sponsored content items responsive to the second request based on determining a relevance of the one or more sponsored content items to the criteria associated with the second request;

    ranking the one or more sponsored content items and comparing, by the one or more processors, a highest ranked sponsored content item of the one or more sponsored content items to the non-sponsored content item using the determined relevances; and

    providing the non-sponsored content item in response to the second request rather than the one or more sponsored content items based at least in part on the comparing.

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